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On Tue, 3 Oct 2017 04:32:20 -0700 (PDT), John Smith
<yoursurrogategod@gmail.com> declaimed the following:

>
>Ok, I feel kind of stupid.  I've tried to include the source like so, but keep getting the above error that I posted earlier:
>
>gnatmake main_static.adb -largs -aI../../../src -L../../../bin/debug -lsimpleLibs
>

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gnat_ugn/Mode-Switches-for-gnatmake.html
"""
The effect of a mode switch is to cause all subsequent switches up to the
end of the switch list, or up to the next mode switch, to be interpreted as
switches to be passed on to the designated component of GNAT. 
"""

	The .ads files are needed by the compiler stage (and maybe the
binder?), not the linker, so their location needs to be specified before
the use of "-largs".
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